Specifically, I’m for anyone opposing “slavish acceptance of inherited dogmas.” We should only slavishly accept *original* dogmas, I say. As Crow T. Robot once put it on Mystery Science Theater, “There’s no tradition like a new tradition.”

No, but seriously, there’s one crime that Spitzer can’t evade even with the help of a free-thinking anthro-apologist standing bravely by his side. That crime is aggressively pushing for stricter vice laws and going out of his way to speak out against prostitution, only to regularly indulge in the practice. That’s the grimmest kind of hypocrisy, not at all unlike the GOP senators and church leaders who villify homosexuality while practicing it. It does great harm to a society to have our leaders stake their moral reputation fighting something they practice themselves. For crying out loud, the Spitzers of the world should pick another issue. (I don’t recall Bill Clinton campaigning against infidelity; then again, I was holding my hands over my ears after about Year 2 of his reign.)